15-year-old Nathan Gardiner is now fighting fit and hoping to raise money for the children's brain injury unit at the RVI

Over the Bank Holiday weekend 15-year-old Nathan along with his family and pals from Cresswell Towers Holiday Park, have been holding events to raise money for the children’s brain injury unit at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary which helped him after his accident.

Two years ago on Sunday, Nathan was hit by a white Vauxhall Combo van as he crossed Lintonville Terrace in Ashington and spent two weeks in an induced coma. Loved ones did not know if he would live or die.

But after months of intense recovery, the determined teenager, of Gateshead , is back to school and fighting fit.

To mark the two year milestone, Nathan, his parents Anita and Paul and younger brother Jamie, clubbed together with friends from the holiday park were they stay every year, to raise money for the unit.

On Sunday, Nathan and pals took on a sponsored walk from Druridge Bay to Cresswell while the adults took a dip in the North Sea.

Mum Anita, 39, said: “It’s been an emotional day. Watching the boys come along the beach I broke into tears.

“It was lovely. His friends Lewis Kennedy, Shane Smuthwaite and Chris Young had organised a sponsored walk two years ago when they did not know if their friend would survive.

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